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SEC adds new ABS and municipal advisor data visuals

The SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis updated public market statistics, adding new ABS and municipal advisor visuals and more historical data for ABS and CMBS issuance.

The SEC’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis has added new public visualizations and expanded historical data for several U.S. capital market segments.

What happened

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Economic and Risk Analysis published updated statistics and data visualizations on U.S. capital markets, the agency said in a July 24 press release.

The update adds three new asset-backed securities, or ABS, issuance visualizations and one new municipal advisor visualization, according to the SEC. It also adds more historical statistics for ABS issuances and commercial mortgage-backed securities, or CMBS, issuances.

The SEC said the updated statistics cover a broad set of market areas, including initial public offerings, follow-on registered offerings, corporate bond offerings, ABS issuances, CMBS issuances, Regulation D offerings, reporting issuers, municipal advisors, transfer agents, security-based swap dealers and nationally recognized statistical rating organizations.

Why it matters

The update gives investors and other market users a broader public view of activity across several parts of the capital markets the SEC oversees. The agency said its public statistics webpage presents data through time series charts, pie charts and heat maps, with interactive and downloadable visuals.

The SEC also said IPO and follow-on offering activity in the first quarter of 2026 showed year-over-year growth. The agency’s release, as provided, did not include the underlying figures for that growth.

Key facts and context

DERA is the SEC office that brings financial economics and data analytics into the agency’s work, according to the release. The division provides economic and statistical analysis for Commission rulemaking and oversight and helps identify emerging market issues, trends and innovations.

The newly updated data set extends beyond equity issuance. It includes public-company reporting categories, private offering activity under Regulation D, parts of the structured finance market, municipal advisory activity, transfer agents, security-based swap dealers and rating organizations registered as nationally recognized statistical rating organizations.

The SEC said the data are available through its public statistics and data visualizations webpage. The agency described the visuals as interactive and downloadable, with chart formats intended to show trends, category distributions and geographic patterns.

What officials said

“These statistics and data visualizations are one of the many ways the SEC provides reliable information and valuable insights to the investing public,” Dr. Joshua T. White, chief economist and director of DERA, said in the SEC release.

White also encouraged readers to visit the webpage “to explore the data and gain a deeper understanding of the markets we oversee.”

What happens next

The updated statistics are available on the SEC’s public statistics and data visualizations webpage. The release points users to the site to review the new ABS and municipal advisor visuals and the expanded historical statistics for ABS and CMBS issuance.